The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-22

with your own ears, Is there power in this
Gospel to give calmness and triumph in the
last exigencyf The response comes from
all sides, from young, and old, and middle
aged: 1--WE are witnesSesW
You see my friends, have not put be-
fore you an abstraction, or a chimera, or
anything like guesswork | present you
atidavits of the best men and women, hv-
ing and dead. Two witnesses in court will
establish fact. Here are not two wit
neSses but thousands of witnesses-on earth
millions Of witnesses, and in heaven a great
multitude of witnesses that no man can
number, testifying that there is power in
this religion TO convert the soul, to give
comfort in trouble, and to afford composure
in the last hour.
II ten men should come to you when you
are sick with appalling sickness, and say
they had the same sickness, and took "A GER
tain medicine, and it cured them, you would
probably take it. Now suppose ten other
mon should come up and say: 1--WE don't
believe there is anything in that medicine. J"
"Well," say, "have you ever tried It'll"
mo, never tried it, but | don't believe
there is anything in it," OF course You dis
credit their testimony. The Skcptic may
come and say: 'There is no power in yoar
religion" "Have you ever tried it, "No,
no." 'Then, avauntp Let me take the
testimony of the millions of souls that have
been converted to God, and comforted in
trial, and solaced in the last hour. We will
take their testimony as they cry: "We are
witnessed"
Some time ago Prof. Henry, of Washing
ton, discovered new star, and the tdings
sped by submarine telegraph, and all the
observatories of Europe were watching for
that new star. Oh, hearer, looking out
through the darkness of thy soul, canst
thou see bright light beaming on theet
"Wherep you say, "wheres How cen |
find it7" Look along by the line of the
cross of the Son of God Do you not see it
trembling with all tenderness and beaming
with all hopei 1t is the Star of Bethlehem.
"Deep horror then my vitals froze,
Death-struck ceased the tide to stem.
When suddenly n star arose
1t was the Star of Bethlehem"
Oh, hearer, get your eye on it. 1t is ca
sier for you now to become Christians than
it is TO stay away from Christ and heaven.
When Madame Sontag began her musical
career she was hissed off the stage Mt Wen
ma by the friends of her rival, Amelia Stein
niger, who had already begun to decline
through her dissipation Years passed on,
and one day Madame Sontag, in her glory,
was riding through the streets of Berlin,
when she saw a little child leading blind
woman, and she said: "Come here, my lit
tie child, come here. Who is that you are
leading by the handr And the little
child replied: "That's my mother; that's
Amelia Steininger She used to be great
singer, but she lost her voice, and she cried
so much about it that she lost her eyesight.
''Give my love to her." said Madame Son
tag, land tell her an old acquaintance will
cali on her this afternoon"
The next week, in Berlin, vast assem-
blage gathered at benefit for that poor
blind woman, and il was said that Madame
Sontag sang that night as she had never
sung before. And she took skilled oculist,
who iu vain tried to give eyesight to the
poor blind woman. Until the day of Amelia
Steiningers death, Madame Sontag took
care of her, and her daughter after her.
That was what the queen Of song did for
her enemy
But, oh, hear a more thrilling story still
Blind, immortal, poor and lost, thou who,
when the world and Christ were rivals for
thy heart, didst hiss thy Lord away-Christ
comes now to give thee sight, TO give thee a
home, TO give thee heaven. With more than
Sontag's generosity, He comes now to
meet your need With more than Son
tags music, He comes TO plead for thy
deliverance.